Text Quotes
996 Text quotes by 705 unique authors
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The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they…
— Daniel Quinn
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Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four…
— Mindy Kaling
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules…
— Jacques Derrida
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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this…
— Jacques Derrida
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He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over.…
— Sophie Kinsella
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At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.
— John Green
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There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards…
— Amy Carmichael
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I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding…
— Jon Richardson
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All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.
— Gary Snyder
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to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from…
— David Lodge
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Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you…
— Melina Marchetta
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Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I…
— John Green
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What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
— C.S. Lewis
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I flip open my phone to text Jessica: Me: Guess who's pregnant? Jess: u? Me: Get real. Jess: ur mom? Me: yep Jess: Mazel tov!?…
— Simone Elkeles
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I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.
— Robin Sloan
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the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,…
— Barack Obama
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I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life…
— Andrea Gibson
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According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now being held for…
— Unknown Author
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The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular…
— Anne Carson
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You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you…
— Rainbow Rowell
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